@DeanDeeann51268 @SophiaCycles Curious, isn’t it, that the therapeutic-spiritual complex—shadow work, bypass critique, all of it—can’t see the demonic complex because the latter isn’t psychic content but the civilizational frame containing awareness itself. It is not an object introspection can bring to light.
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3/ A collective enchantment so complete, most of us have forgotten there's anything beyond it to wake up to. We are consumed by an endless churn of manufactured narratives and counter-narratives, exiled from the immediacy through which reality's actual telos moves and speaks. What if what we await lies hidden—not by delay—but by some deeper design: veiled by the very structures of consciousness, perception, expectation and recognition that modernity bequeaths? What would it take to faithfully and democratically break that spell and together, see anew? Subtweet: An ontological correlative in Illich, whose leading thesis is that Western modernity represents a perverted attempt to encode and institutionalize the NT as rules of behavior, duty, and laws in a corrupting structural deception so pervasive that we no longer realize it’s there.
@BMcGrewvy @IVMiles You speak of civilization as if it were a stable subject. But the frame itself—a total complex whose very existence hardwires flight from sight—never mind recognition—of any politic not undergirded by business as usual, exceptionalism and violence—is under eschatological audit.
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Tweet thread here: 4/ Because it saturates everything, it doesn't appear as one option among others—it appears as 'the Real.' Its structures (media, markets, law, expert discourse, security doctrine, even religion) define what counts as obvious, serious, rational, realistic. As common sense. 5\ The scandal is this: what the demonic complex trains us to treat as “unreal”—mercy, enemy-love, gratuitous forgiveness, shared bread—are concrete sites where another sovereignty is operative, the Kingdom already here as counter-environment: the deeper order present yet unread. 9/ Under the Spell, claims live in a sealed habitat, a self-referential frame that defines significance, certifies its own credibility, and calls it truth. This is the system that politics administers: the importance-regime that crowns appearances and calls its hierarchy ‘real.’ 10/ To overthrow the Spell is to see through this significance-allocation regime and to reject the reality principle which commands us to be fooled by appearances—"respect the Emperor's New Clothes". It means withdrawing from the artificial apparatus assigning value to power.
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